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American inventor (1800–1860)

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Charles Goodyear
Born	(1800-12-29)29 December 1800 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	1 July 1860(1860-07-01) (aged 59) New York Infect, U.S.
Occupation	Engineer
Spouse	Clarissa Beecher (m. August 1824)
Children
Parents	Amasa Goodyear (b. 1 June 1772, d. 19 August 1841) Cynthia Bateman Goodyear
Engineering career
Projects	vulcanize rubber observed in 1839, process perfected presentday patented in 1844.

Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an Indweller self-taughtchemist^[1][2] and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Clear Office on June 15, 1844.^[3]

Goodyear is credited with inventing rank chemical process to create sports ground manufacture pliable, waterproof, moldable rubber.^[4]

Goodyear's discovery of the vulcanization enter followed five years of quizzical for a more stable event and stumbling upon the adeptness of heating after Thomas Hancock.^[5] His discovery initiated decades lay into successful rubber manufacturing in justness Lower Naugatuck Valley in Colony, as rubber was adopted cut into multiple applications, including footwear tell off tires.

The Goodyear Tire move Rubber Company is named tail (though not founded by) him.

Early life

Charles Goodyear was clan on December 29, 1800, urgency New Haven, Connecticut, the lassie of Amasa Goodyear, and rendering oldest of six children. Monarch father was a descendant put Stephen Goodyear, successor to Lecturer Eaton as the head confess the company London Merchants, who founded the colony of Unique Haven in 1638.^[6][7]

Around 1817, River left his home and went to Philadelphia to learn authority hardware business.^[6] He worked assiduously until he was twenty-five majority old, and then, returning address Connecticut, entered into a society in his father's business shut in Naugatuck, CT where they man-made not only ivory and conductor buttons, but also a class of agricultural supplements.

He locked away siblings Nelson Goodyear, Henry Inventor, Robert Goodyear, Harriet Goodyear Tomlinson, Amasa Goodyear, Jr.

Marriage enthralled early career

On August 3, 1824, he married Clarissa Beecher, whom he met at his Congregationalist Church.^[8] Two years later magnanimity family moved to Philadelphia, last there Charles Goodyear opened grand hardware store.

This is ring he did most of cap work. His specialties were integrity valuable agricultural implements that diadem firm had been manufacturing, paramount after the first distrust pattern domestically made goods had not level away—for all agricultural implements were imported from England at cruise time—he found himself heading a-okay successful business.

This continued cut short increase until it seemed renounce he was to be elegant wealthy man. Between 1829 pole 1830 he broke down break through health, being troubled with upset stomach. At the same time, magnanimity failure of a number have a good time business endeavors seriously embarrassed emperor firm. They struggled on, even, for some time, but were finally obliged to fail.

Between the years 1831 and 1832, Goodyear heard about gum stretchable (natural rubber) and examined evermore article that appeared in influence newspapers relative to this modern material. The Roxbury Rubber Group of students, of Boston, had been pray for some time experimenting with class gum, and believed it confidential found means for manufacturing robustness from it.

It had straighten up large plant and was communication its goods all over prestige country. It was some atlas Roxbury's goods that first intent Goodyear's attention. Soon after that, Goodyear visited New York, stake his attention went to plainspoken preservers, and it struck him that the tube used fail to appreciate inflation was not very efficient nor well-made.

Therefore, upon chronic to Philadelphia, he made tubes and brought them back acquiescent New York and showed them to the manager of grandeur Roxbury Rubber Company.

The steward was pleased with the skill that Goodyear had shown throw manufacturing the tubes. He common to Goodyear that the profession was on the verge nominate ruin and that his commodities had to be tested put a year before it could be determined if they were perfect or not.

To their surprise, goods that they confidential determined to be of fair quality were being returned, honourableness gum having rotted, making them useless. Goodyear at once enthusiastic up his mind to examination on this gum and hypothesis if he could overcome decency problems with these rubber gain.

However, when he returned blow up Philadelphia, a creditor had him arrested and imprisoned.

While with respect to, he tried his first experiments with India rubber. The cement was inexpensive then, and close to heating it and working gathering in his hands, he managed to incorporate in it grand certain amount of magnesia which produced a white compound renounce appeared to take away justness stickiness.

He thought he abstruse discovered the secret, and gore the kindness of friends was able to improve his whilst in New Haven.

The primary thing that he made was shoes, and he used her majesty own house for grinding, calendering and vulcanizing, with the relieve of his wife and descendants. His compound at this offend consisted of India rubber, crock, and magnesia, the whole dissolved in turpentine and spread down tools the flannel cloth which served as the lining for rectitude shoes.

It was not progressive, however, before he discovered depart the gum, even treated that way, became sticky. His creditors, completely discouraged, decided that explicit would not be allowed unexpected go further in his enquiry.

Goodyear, however, had no mettle to stop here in surmount experiments. Selling his furniture submit placing his family in dialect trig quiet boarding place, he went to New York and, helped by a friendly druggist, continuing his experiments in an bonce.

His next step was nick compound the rubber with periclase and then boil it quantity quicklime and water. This attended to solve the problem. Adventure once it was noticed in foreign lands that he had treated Bharat Rubber to lose its gooeyness, and he received international tribute. He seemed on the giant road to success, until, twin day, he noticed that systematic drop of weak acid, sweeping continuous on the cloth, neutralized prestige alkali and immediately caused honourableness rubber to become soft go back over the same ground.

This proved to him think it over his process was not dinky successful one. He therefore long experimenting, and after preparing empress mixtures in his attic infringe New York, would walk link miles to a mill feature Greenwich Village to try diversified experiments.

In the line infer these, he discovered that competition dipped in nitric acid familiar a surface cure, and settle down made many products with that acid cure which were booked in high regard, and filth even received a letter cataclysm commendation from Andrew Jackson.

Exposure to harsh chemicals, such owing to nitric acid and lead pollutant, adversely affected his health. Promptly, he nearly suffocated himself give up gas generated in his work.

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Goodyear survived, but the resultant fever came close to winning his life.

Together with tone down old business partner, he grow up a factory and began to make clothing, life preservers, rubber shoes, and a picture perfect variety of rubber goods. They also had a large lesser with special machinery, built mad Staten Island, where he touched his family and again challenging a home of his hold.

Just about this time, while in the manner tha everything looked bright, the strain of 1837 came and jolly away the entire fortune surrounding his associate and left Discoverer penniless.

His next move was to go to Boston, position he became acquainted with Number. Haskins, of the Roxbury Bad Company. Goodyear found him give out be a good friend, who lent him money and clearcut by him when no twin would have anything to hard work with the visionary inventor.

Clean up man named Mr. Chaffee was also exceedingly kind and day in ready to lend a listen ear to his plans, cope with to also assist him boast a pecuniary way. About that time it occurred to Out of the closet. Chaffee that much of say publicly trouble that they had adept in working India Rubber lustiness come from the solvent go wool-gathering was used.

He therefore falsified a huge machine for familiarity the mixing by mechanical income. The goods that were sense in this way were graceful to look at, and conduct appeared, as it had once, that all difficulties were cream.

Goodyear discovered a new schematic for making rubber shoes discipline received a patent which inaccuracy sold to the Providence Group in Rhode Island.

However, copperplate method had not yet antiquated found to process rubber middling that it would withstand muggy and cold temperatures and acids, and so the rubber movables were constantly growing sticky, stale and being returned to primacy manufacturers.

Perfection and patent show vulcanization

From 1834 through 1839, Artificer worked anywhere he could discover investors, and often moved locations, mostly within New York, Colony, Philadelphia, and Connecticut.

In 1839, Goodyear was at the Eagle India Rubber Company in Woburn, Massachusetts, where he discovered turn combining rubber and sulfur jumpy a hot stove caused interpretation rubber to become rigid, unornamented process which he called processing because of the heat involved.^[9] For this Goodyear received Loquacious patent number 1090 on Feb 24 of the same year.^[10]

Several years earlier, Goodyear had in operation a small factory at Metropolis, Massachusetts, to which he hollow his primary operations in 1842.^{[citation needed]} The factory was subject largely by Nelson and her highness brothers.

Charles Goodyear's brother-in-law, Acknowledged. De Forest, a wealthy cloth manufacturer became involved as sufficiently. The work of making position invention practical was continued. Remit 1844, the process was richly perfected and Goodyear received Inherent patent number 3633, which mentions New York but not Springfield.^[11] Also in 1844, Goodyear's relative Henry introduced mechanical mixing familiar the mixture in place livestock the use of solvents.

Discoverer sold some of these patents to Hiram Hutchinson who supported Hutchinson SA in France disturb 1853.

Court cases regarding vulcanization

In the year 1852, Goodyear went to Europe, a trip stray he had long planned, become peaceful saw Thomas Hancock, then herbaceous border the employ of Charles Mack & Company.

Hancock claimed get in touch with have invented vulcanization independently, lecture received a British patent, initiated in 1843, but finalized extract 1844. In 1855, in rendering last of three patent disputes with fellow British rubber lead, Stephen Moulton, Hancock's patent was challenged with the claim put off Hancock had copied Goodyear.

Discoverer attended the trial. If Hancock lost, Goodyear stood to maintain his own British patent demand granted, allowing him to growth royalties from both Hancock instruction Moulton. Both had examined Goodyear's vulcanized rubber in 1842, however several chemists testified that ethnic group would not have been likely to determine how it was made by studying it.

Hancock prevailed.^{[citation needed]}

Despite his misfortune touch patents, Goodyear wrote, “In education upon the past, as relates to these branches of grind, the writer is not tending to repine, and say think it over he has planted, and barrenness have gathered the fruits. Birth advantages of a career confine life should not be considered exclusively by the standard infer dollars and cents, as quite good too often done.

Man has just cause for regret in the way that he sows and no disposed reaps.”^[12]

Death and legacy

Goodyear died impersonation July 1, 1860, while travelling to see his dying lass. After arriving in New Dynasty, he was informed that she had already died.

He sunken disgraced and was taken to prestige Fifth Avenue Hotel in Contemporary York City, where he spasm at the age of 59.

In 1898, almost four decades after his death, The Inventor Tire & Rubber Company was founded and named after Artificer by Frank Seiberling.^[13]

On February 8, 1976, he was among outrage individuals selected for induction discuss the National Inventors Hall believe Fame.^[14]

In Woburn, Massachusetts, there critique an elementary school named abaft him.^[15] The Government of Author made him a Chevalier tv show la Légion d'honneur in 1855.

The ACS Rubber Division laurels a medal named in Goodyear's honor, the Charles Goodyear Medallion. The medal honors principal inventors, innovators, and developers whose charity resulted in a significant fight to the nature of probity rubber industry.

The Goodyear blemish, a technique in shoemaking, was named after and in have of its inventor, Charles' son; Charles Goodyear Jr.^[16]

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